Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.